Tara Kay
@mstara.bsky.social
Learner. KS1 teacher. Curriculum and Assessment Lead.
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I recently sat down with Amplify’s Science of Reading: The Podcast host, Susan Lambert. We chatted about the science of learning, how cognitive load affects learning, and more. Listen to the full episode here: amplify.com/science-of-r...
June 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I recently sat down with Amplify’s Science of Reading: The Podcast host, Susan Lambert. We chatted about the science of learning, how cognitive load affects learning, and more. Listen to the full episode here: amplify.com/science-of-r...
Reposted by Tara Kay
What does adaptive teaching look like? All too often teachers are told to make their classroom adaptive but what exactly is adaptive?
This blogpost by Claire Sealy gives excellent concrete examples: primarytimery.com/2024/03/29/a...
This blogpost by Claire Sealy gives excellent concrete examples: primarytimery.com/2024/03/29/a...
Adaptive teaching – the four verbs approach
The older I get, the more I see how good ideas undergo distortion as schools seek to implement them. Collecting achievement data morphs into half termly data drops, an Ofsted focus on curriculum di…
primarytimery.com
January 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
What does adaptive teaching look like? All too often teachers are told to make their classroom adaptive but what exactly is adaptive?
This blogpost by Claire Sealy gives excellent concrete examples: primarytimery.com/2024/03/29/a...
This blogpost by Claire Sealy gives excellent concrete examples: primarytimery.com/2024/03/29/a...
Exploring how Understanding by Design could help structure and help create quality Mode B learning experiences.
teacherhead.com/2018/04/22/m...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andr...
teacherhead.com/2018/04/22/m...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andr...
Mode A + Mode B = Effective teaching and a rich enacted curriculum
The slide below is one that I often use in my CPD presentations. The percentages are revealed after some reflection time. I’m keen to stress that, as a physics teacher, this is ho…
teacherhead.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Exploring how Understanding by Design could help structure and help create quality Mode B learning experiences.
teacherhead.com/2018/04/22/m...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andr...
teacherhead.com/2018/04/22/m...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andr...
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New post from me on the expertise reversal effect and why I don't find it very helpful: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-critique... #mtbos #iteachmath #edusky
A Critique of the Expertise Reversal Effect
Or, why experts vs novices isn't a helpful distinction
fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 PM
New post from me on the expertise reversal effect and why I don't find it very helpful: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-critique... #mtbos #iteachmath #edusky
“Our curriculum should be in service to our children and not the other way around” (p.21)
Lately I’m thinking about how to combine really good quality teaching with rich opportunities to develop schema and create meaningful connections.
This book was a good place to start @emmaturner75.bsky.social
Lately I’m thinking about how to combine really good quality teaching with rich opportunities to develop schema and create meaningful connections.
This book was a good place to start @emmaturner75.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
“Our curriculum should be in service to our children and not the other way around” (p.21)
Lately I’m thinking about how to combine really good quality teaching with rich opportunities to develop schema and create meaningful connections.
This book was a good place to start @emmaturner75.bsky.social
Lately I’m thinking about how to combine really good quality teaching with rich opportunities to develop schema and create meaningful connections.
This book was a good place to start @emmaturner75.bsky.social